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Bluesky rolls out automated moderation tools, plus user and moderation lists

December 1, 2023

Bluesky, the startup aiming to build a decentralized social network to take on Twitter/X, says it has begun deploying new safety tooling to help moderate content on the network through automation. Although still in private beta, the company has already made headlines for issues around content moderation in recent months after it initially didn’t ban […]

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X says it will chase SMB ad dollars after Musk’s ‘go f*** yourself’ comments to fleeing advertisers

December 1, 2023

A new report by the Financial Times says X will now turn to small and medium-sized advertisers to shore up revenue after the company’s owner Elon Musk alienated big brands fleeing X over antisemitic content by telling them they could go fuck themselves during an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit earlier this […]

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Why Rover’s $2.3B sale price makes good sense

December 1, 2023

The Rover deal is expensive, but it has some notable caveats that tell us quite a lot about the state of the market for tech, and tech-enabled, companies.

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Revenue-based financing heats up in the Middle East as Flow48 attracts $25M in funding

December 1, 2023

We’ve seen how non-dilutive, revenue-based financing has risen up the priority ranks for companies as the era of ZIRP — as the Zero Interest Rate Period is now lovingly and somewhat longingly known — recedes into the distance, and securing venture capital funds becomes harder. An example of this is how US companies in this […]

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